a short name derived mechanically from the scores on the four
dimensions; a two-letter code (e.g., Ur for non-suburban) indicates
a standard deviation from the mean of .5 to 1; a two-letter code
preceded by V (e.g., VWe for very well-off) indicates a standard
deviation from the mean of greater than 1 and less than 2.5; a
double VV (e.g., VVWe) means a standard deviation of greater than
2.5.

The ten neigborhood types are as follows:

1.(34.0 40.0 42.5 37.8).
VUrPoNaVFe. Very urban, impoverished,
English-speaking, with many female-headed families and numerous
children. The core impoverished African-American neighborhoods of
the South and West Sides. More than 1.5 standard deviations above
the mean on "urban" (dimension 1).

2.(47.0 43.2 44.1 43.5).
PoNaFe. Somewhat impoverished, mostly
English-speaking, with a fair number of female-headed families with
many children. Mostly African-American neighborhoods on the edge of
type-1 neighborhoods.

4.(40.0 62.7 48.9 68.7).
UrVWeVNo. Very well-off neighborhoods with many
non-family households. Most of the North Side Lakefront, plus the
area around the Loop, with outliers in Hyde Park, Evanston, Oak
Park, and a few suburban tracts with apartment building
clusters.

6.(38.6 48.6 61.4 58.8).
VUrVIsNo. Very urban and very
linguistically-isolated/Hispanic, with non-family households. The
complicated, often only partly Hispanic, neighborhoods on the inner
Northwest and Far North Sides.

7.(40.0 65.4 46.2 89.4).
UrVWeVVNo. Urban, very well-off, with a great many
non-family households (nearly 4 standard deviations above the mean
on the latter). Neighborhoods with numerous young, unmarried adults
and hardly any children. The greatest concentration follows Halsted
Street from North Avenue to "Boys' Town." There are small outliers
in Hyde Park, Bucktown, the Near West Side, Evanston, and Oak Park.
This type of neighborhood was not distinguished in the analysis of
1990 data.